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was at40 ever in philly

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I have been enjoying Sirius/XM's reruns of Casey's American Top 40 on the 70's and 80's Channels. Last night the date was 6-22-74, the question I have is, was it ever carried on any Philadelphia station. I seem to remember no station carrying it, I would tune to other cities to hear it, last night they mentioned new stations and most of them were on FM and were the new STEREO sound, they were pushing. I know this area only had the "no reception beyond CC going southeast if that much", Compressed, Stereo, WIFI, which was a poor excuse for an FM top 40 station, all other areas had powerful top 40 FM's in the early 70's, when top 40 on FM was just starting out.. eg. 99X-NYC, Super Q94 Richmond and later Drakes Rock formats like 104 in AC.
 
I'm not positive but I think Eagle 106 carried Casey back in the 80s
 
Don't think it was Electric 106--don't believe they ran any syndicated stuff (unless they used something like Powerline for the public affairs requirements). AT40 was like the orphan...WCAU carried it but gave Rick Dees the promotion and better slot, while Eagle gave the better placement to Scott Shannon's countdown.
 
It aired on both Z-106 and Eagle 106. Casey even mentions you can hear AT-40 on "WZGO Bala Cynwyd, PA" during the infamous episode where he goes off on the death dedication to a dog!

I believe Eagle 106 carried AT-40 until it became WJJZ in March 1993.
 
WPST carried AT40 till the bitter end in the mid-90's but I'm not sure when they started carrying it. I wasn't an AT40 listener until the Shadoe Stevens era.

In the early 90's, Eagle 106 had AT40, hosted by Stevens, 8-12 Sunday mornings. They replaced it with Casey's Top 40 (hosted by Kasem, of course) in late 1991 and carried that until they were replaced by WJJZ.

When Y100 signed on as an Adult CHR, they carried a version of AT40 with the rap songs removed. They replaced it with Rick Dees when ABC syndication picked up the Dees show sometime in the mid-90's. I believe Dees continued to be heard on the station until 1997, years after Y100 stopped playing most of the songs on the CHR chart.

After Casey Kasem signed with Premiere and resurrected the AT40 brand in 1998, Star 104.5 picked up American Top 20, which was a Hot AC countdown hosted by Casey Kasem. Q102 picked up Casey's version of AT40 in late 1999 or early 2000.

The only place to find Casey Kasem all throughout the 90's was on Allentown's B104 which carried both Casey's Top 40 and Casey's Hot 20, then later picked up the resurrected AT40 hosted by Kasem.
 
WOGL airs old AT40's on the weekend. I'm not exactly sure when (saturday mornings, I think).
 
They run it 6to 9 Saturdays and lots on the stream to cover all the specialty shows like Elvis and The Beatles that the greedy and ineffective RIAA makes them block. The show gets better as it goes. The bottom half has a lot of those forgotten low charters that made the top 40 but were not hits that endured.The last hour is always great!!
 
I believe the 'cover up' situation is with AFTRA, not RIAA. AFTRA talents negotiated to be paid again if it runs on the net as well as on-air.
 
WMVB, Millville, was running it when I got there in '78, and it was still on when I left in '81. I think Casey even gave the station a shout out in '80.
 
Starbucks said:
imhomerjay said:
WCAU-FM had it for a time in the '80s.
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Do you have facts and statistics on that?
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There were two occasions when WCAU-FM carried AT40. The first 'stint' was from late 1981 to about March of 1982. IIRC they aired it on Sundays from 8PM til midnight then. Sometime around late 1986, they picked up the program again and aired it from 6AM til 10AM Saturdays. I'm assuming they dropped it when they went oldies. I do know that after WCAU dropped it in '82, WIFI picked it up. Oddly enough, WIFI kept airing it during their short-lived 'new wave' format days in 1983 when they were known as "I-92". I don't know when WIFI dropped the program, but I do know that by March of 1984, WWSH (which would become WZGO/Z106) would pick up the program. When Shadoe Stevens took over the reigns at AT40, Eagle 106 would pick up the program again.

IIRC Until July of 1980 about the only stations that served the Philly area where you could get AT40 were on WWBZ (then know as BZ13) out of Vineland, WBT out of Charlotte, NC by March of 1980 would broadcast it between 9PM and 1AM on Saturday nights. I also recall that you could get Allentown's WKAP in the Philly area, albeit barely. IIRC they would drop AT40 in January of 1980 when they went AC. In July of 1980, NYC's WNBC began broadcasting AT40 on Sunday mornings. With many areas in that station's secondary service area at that time not having an AT40 affiliate (Philly, the Lehigh Valley, Reading PA, just to name a few) I considered that station to be a Godsend! They'd keep it until November of 1983.

To GlennSummers: are you sure that WMVB carried that program as well as WWBZ? I highly doubt two stations that were that close could carry the program simultaneously.
 
I'm proud to say that it was on WAMS in Wilmington from show number one, July 4, 1970.

I know ... I ran it and still own the vinyl disks and the red, white & blue box with "liner notes" it came in ... after I fished it out of the trash the next day. One of my proudest possessions.
 
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